This long weekend course is for intermediate potters. If you want to improve your throwing skills, this dedicated time and space with expert tuition will help you develop your ceramic practice. This course will include techniques for preparing and wedging your clay, centering on the wheel, throwing a basic cylinder, turning and trimming pots, attaching handles and exploring other forms including bowls, mugs, jugs, and plates. We’ll work towards repeat throwing to make consistent pots, and focus on the process of throwing for great quality ceramics.
Raphaela grew up in the South Devon area and spent lot of her childhood outside. She went to the local Steiner school, which had a heavy emphasis on being creative and making things with your hands. Those were always her favourite lessons whether it was art or woodwork, it's where she felt most comfortable. Fast forward a few years and she attended her first pottery class locally to Coombe and was hooked from the first time I went on the wheel and new with a complete certainty that pottery was for her.
Since then she’s done two apprenticeships, managed a community studio [Studio 45 at nearby Dartington] and started teaching, which she describes as “an unexpected joy”
Raphaela is now making her own ceramics full time from her home studio.
MATERIALS LIST FOR THIS COURSE
If you have them, bring pottery tools, otherwise we will provide a basic selection. You will need a sketchbook and drawing materials.
There will be a charge of £5 per kilo of clay to include materials and firing to stoneware temperature in an electric kiln. Finished work can be sent on for a small charge,
The total price for this residential course is £560 + VAT (£673) including food, accommodation, materials, firings and your tuition.
At the point of booking/adding to cart, you are asked to pay a non-refundable* deposit of £150.
The remaining balance (£523) is payable three weeks before the course starts (either by bank transfer, cheque or card over the phone)
*Non-refundable and non-transferrable. Please read our full Terms & Conditions including cancellations.
